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...Norris of Nebraska, made an assault upon the rules. They voted to have the House choose the members of the Committee on Rules and ousted the Speaker from it. "Tsar" Cannon objected, was overruled. The House was in a turmoil; hostile Congressmen rushed at the Speaker's rostrum as if to tear him bodily from his throne. His gavel smote his desk; he said that his seat could better be declared vacant by a majority vote. A vote was taken. He kept his throne until 1911; but gradually the old rules were replaced; "Tsar" Cannon was replaced by "Uncle...
...Deputies filed past the rostrum depositing their ballots they chanted a Fascist song: "Youth!! Youth!! Springtime of Beauty. . . ." The bill passed 293 to 10. As the vote was announced...
Coach Horween will speak, and will be followed to the rostrum by J. L. Brader, Wisconsin 1923, former all-American tackle, who is coaching the University linemen, and C. R. Carney, Illinois 1923, all-American end, who is tutoring the Crimson wingmen...
...Wells has felt the necessity for a new approach to his rostrum, an impressive, unpoliced approach that will at once command unusual attention and leave him freer than ever to expatiate upon the human spectacle. In The Outline of History he had to deal dutifully with many matters of transient and undisputed consequence. Moreover, history is but the gradient leading up to Mr. Wells' deepest concern, the future of mankind after its scientific emancipation. In his pseudo-scientific novels, several of which he laid in that far future, he felt the cramp of plot and character relations. So while...
...campus: fashion-plate and ladies' man (snake, fusser, petter, necker, lizard, sheik, as you will). He retains the MacNooder eloquence and syncopates it, polishing his quips for quotation, studying his audience. MacNooder's political finesse is his, refined and extended even unto sorority elections. His rostrum is at the mass meeting, in front of the grandstand, on the Charleston floor...